>> HOBBY LOBBY IS BACK IN THE NEWS, AND I WOULD LIKE TO GO OUT
ON A LIMB AND SAY THIS IS THE WEIRDEST REASON TO BE IN THE
NEWS THAT I CAN THINK OF.
THEY WERE CAUGHT TRYING TO IMPORT
$1.6 MILLION WORTH OF ANCIENT ARTIFACTS, THEY GOT CAUGHT FOR
BECAUSE THINGS WERE LABELED WEIRD.
THEY ARE BEING FORCED TO
PAY $3 MILLION IN FINES, GIVE ALL OF THE ARTIFACTS BACK TO THE
GOVERNMENT, AND CHANGE THEIR WAYS TO MAKE SURE WHEN THEY ARE
IMPORTING ANCIENT ARTIFACTS THEY DO IT TO THE WAYS OF CUSTOMS AND
BORDER PATROL.
THIS ALL STARTED BACK
IN 2010.
JUST SO YOU KNOW
THEY PROCEEDED WITH THIS DESPITE
THE MANY
RED FLAGS.
>> IT IS A REALLY SERIOUS CRIME IF YOU BUY AN ARTIFACT THAT IS
ACTUALLY STATE PROPERTY OF ANOTHER GOVERNMENT.
SO WHEN THEY
SAY SEND IT TO THE SEVEN DIFFERENT BANK ACCOUNTS, OF
COURSE IT IS ILLEGAL.
>>ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO SHIPPED IT LABELED IT STUFF NOT LIKE
ANCIENT ARTIFACTS ñ YOU NEED TO LABEL IT WHAT IT IS SO THEY MAKE
SURE IT IS NOT LOOTED.
THEY JUST LABELED IT CERAMICS, WHICH
TECHNICALLY IT IS, AND TILE PIECES WHICH I GUESS SOME OF
THESE COULD BE CONSTRUED AS THAT.
WHY ARE THEY BUYING ALL THIS STUFF?
>> THAT IS THE BEST PART.
SINCE 2009 HOBBY LOBBY ñ YOU GUYS
MIGHT REMEMBER THEM.
THEY WANTED TO IMPOSE THEIR RELIGION ON
THEIR EMPLOYEES.
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO COVER INSURANCE THAT
COVERS ABORTIONS BECAUSE JESUS DIDN'T LIKE ABORTIONS, ALTHOUGH
HE NEVER MENTIONED IT.
2009 BECAUSE THEY LOVED JESUS AND THE
BIBLE, THEY STARTED BUYING HISTORICAL BIBLES AND OTHER
ARTIFACTS.
SO FAR, GREAT, NO PROBLEM.
IT TURNS OUT THEY GOT
REALLY INTO IT AND STARTED BUYING MORE AND MORE.
THEN THEY
STARTED DOING IT LEGALLY HERE, WHICH THEY HAVE
ADMITTED.FOR SOMEONE WHO IS PASSIONATE ABOUT THE BIBLE, I'M
PRETTY SURE THOU SHALT NOT STEAL IS IN THE BIBLE.
IT IS SUCH A
PERFECT MICROCOSM OF A
FUNDAMENTALIST IDEOLOGY.
>> IF IT WAS PLACED THERE BY GIDEONS IN THE HOTEL ROOM,
I'M SURE THEY WOULD TAKE IT.
>> IF YOU STILL IMPORTANT ARTIFACTS AND LIE ABOUT IT ON
PURPOSE, THAT IS PRETTY UNCHRISTIAN.
>> LET'S GO TO GRAPHICS SEVEN.
THIS IS WHAT HOBBY LOBBY HAS
AGREED TO IN THE WAKE
OF THIS.
IS SO
FRUSTRATING ñ HEY, YOU
WON'T HAVE ACCESS TO BIRTH CONTROL BUT WE HAVE $1.6 MILLION
TO SPEND ON MESOPOTAMIAN CUNEIFORM.
>> HE'S RIGHT, HE MAKES IT SEEM LIKE IT WAS AN HONEST MISTAKE.
YOU HAD AN ANCIENT ARTIFACT THAT YOU DISPLAYED IN A SUPER WEIRD
WAY, AND WE MISLABELED AND SENT IT OVER HERE.
OOPS.
GUESS WE WON'T MAKE THAT HONEST MISTAKE AGAIN.
>> WHERE THESE GO WHEN THEY GET CONFISCATED BY THE GOVERNMENT?
>> I HOPE THEY WOULD HAVE A PROCESS BY WHICH THEY
DETERMINE WHERE IT ACTUALLY CAME FROM AND RETURN IT.
>>PART OF ME HOPES TO GET PUT ON A FORKLIFT AND GETS PUT NEXT TO
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT LIKE THE LAST SCENE IN THE RAIDERS
OF THE LOST ARK.